Bob Woodward

Bob Woodward (26 March 1943-) was an American investigative journalist who worked for The Washington Post from 1971. Woodward and Carl Bernstein teamed up to expose President Richard Nixon's role in the Watergate scandal in what is often considered to be the greatest single reporting effort of all time.

Biography
Bob Woodward was born in Geneva, Illinois on 26 March 1943, and he graduated from Yale University in 1965; he served in the US Navy until he was discharged in 1970 with the rank of Lieutenant. He became a reporter for The Washington Post in 1971, and he was teamed up with Carl Bernstein in 1972 during the paper's investigation of the Watergate scandal. Woodward and Bernstein exposed the corruption of Richard Nixon's administration after interviewing several White House associates (from Nixon's re-election committee CREEP, as well as other people close to the administration) and following the money. The two of them were responsible for Nixon's resignation, and their reporting effort was called the greatest of all time by Gene Roberts, a longtime journalism figure. Woodward would go on to write 18 best-selling books on American politics, and he continued working for The Post.